American Poetry After reading all the poems assigned, which two most clearly illustrate America as you personally see it? Why? Read the following selections from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume D: ISBN-13: 978-0393927429 o T.S. Eliot. Read the biographical material on Eliot and “The Waste Land.” o Langston Hughes. Read the biographical material on Hughes and all poems. o William Carlos Williams. Read the biographical material on Williams and all poems. o Ezra Pound. Read the biographical material on Pound and all poems. o H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). Read the biographical material on H. D. and excerpts from “The Walls Do Not Fall.” o Jean Toomer. Read the biographical material on Toomer and excerpts from “Cane.” o Carl Sandburg. Read the biographical material on Sandburg and all poems. o Robert Frost. Read the biographical material on Frost and and the following poems: “Mowing,” “Mending Wall,” “After Apple-Picking,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Birches,” “Out, Out,” “Fire and Ice,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Design,” “The Gift Outright.” o Claude McKay. Read the biographical material on McKay and and the following poems: “Harlem Shadows,” “The Lynching,” “If We Must Die,” and “America.” View Study Guide Read “Unit 10: Rhythms in Poetry” in American Passages: A Literary Survey,. ISBN-13: 978-0393979398
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